May 2010 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Sub: Urgent Openings in ITM University Gurgaon
by Deepak Sharma 24 May '10

24 May '10

Respected Forum Members, As you all know that Institute of Technology and Management(ITM) Gurgaon has got the status of University. So to increase the manpower in Library and Resource Center we require to fill the following posts. Library Assistant (One) He/She should be M.Lib & Inf. Science+3 years of experience. Computer Operator for Multimedia Library He/She should be graduate and diploma in computer Hardware and Networking from Reputed institution. Desireable : Diploma in Library & Information Science Library Attandnet He/She should be Diploma in Library & Information Science+ 1 year experience. Desireable : One year computer course from reputed institution. With regards Deepak Sharma Assistant Librarian ITM University Sector 23 A, Gurgaon 01242365811 9015433756 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LEARN OSS AT ZERO COST
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 24 May '10

24 May '10

Dear All, I would like to invite all those LIS professionals at my home who wants to implement/Learn about Open Source Software's in/for libraries but due to lack of technical capability OR not getting support from their organization to attend training programs/workshop OR Due to financial limits of the Library they can't purchase the software's. You can fix the dates by sending your request in advance. Please note you need not to worry about the accommodation and fooding charges my family (Myself, wife and two kids) will take care of that, only you need to spend on travel. I ensure you will get best support and help along with free installation CD'S so that you can implement it in your Library efficiently and effectively, later-on you will get telephonic/e-mail support also. Software's: Newgenlib, Koha, Dspace, Greenstone, Joomla on windows platform. Please note: At a time only two persons will be invited to learn Two software's only, they have to implement the software in their Libraries and also try to share their technical capability in the Nearby Libraries. I am trying to form group of peoples through our website HDLS at http://lishelp.ning.com who can provide such facility in different regions of our Country. You are most welcome to my Home With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra Senior Library Information Assistant Periodicals and Automation Division P.K.Kelkar Library IIT Kanpur. Mob: 91+9198539740 email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(a)gmail.com website: http://lishelp.ning.com (HDLS) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Online survey on Management skills among LIS Professionals
by Dinesh K Gupta 24 May '10

24 May '10

Dear all, As a part of the UGC Major Research Project on "Education, Training and Research in Library Management in Indian Universities", I am to identify LIS professionals' educational and training needs in management. In this connection, I am approaching you to kindly fill up the online questionnaire 'Capacity Building Programmes for Management Skills among Library and Information Professionals: A Survey' available at: http://ugcsurvey.questionpro.com/ It takes about 5-10 minutes to complete the questionnaire. I seek your kind cooperation in this regard. Best regards Dinesh -------From------------------------------------------ Dinesh K. Gupta, Head, Dept. of Lib. & Inf. Sc., Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota-324010, India e-mail: dineshkg(a)sancharnet.in / dineshkg_in(a)yahoo.com ------------------- Blogs: MARKETING-MANTRA-FOR-LIBRARIANS http://www.marketing-mantra-for-librarians.blogspot.com/ HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD: CLIPPINGS http://www.highereducation-india.blogspot.com/ Recent Paper: Gupta, Dinesh K. and Savard, Réjean,(Dec. 2009) 'Marketing Library and Information Services', Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, Taylor & Francis, 1: 1, 3553 - 3560 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request of article :
by Jagannathan Kasinathan 24 May '10

24 May '10

Dear Professional, Our staff require for below mentioned articles for research articles. If any one access American chemical society (ACS Publication) online , it is easy for them to download. Hence, I request to all of if any one find below articles please send the pdf format of the same. Joural : Jouranl of natural products Authors : Takeda, Y and Fatope, MP. Title : A new phenolic glycosides from lawsonia inermis. Vol/Issue /Year : v. 51(4) p. 725-729 Publication date : July/ Aug 1988. Thanks & regards, J.Kasinathan Librarian CRC Centre, #12, Poonmallee Road, Ekkattuthangal, Chennai 600 032. Tamilnadu. India. Tel :91-44-22251011 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians in the digital age
by Ms.Charu Dev 23 May '10

23 May '10

Respected Friends, Greetings for the day, I may request to my worthy friends to spend some of thier valuable moments on following link http://chronicle.com/article/Marian-the-Cybrarian/65570/ Regards, -- Ms. Charu Dev.. http://openlink-charu.blogspot.com/ http://charu-virtualworld.blogspot.com/ http://charu-libraryworld.blogspot.com/ http://charu-openair.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Just Published "Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives"
by Puna Das 23 May '10

23 May '10

Just Published "Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives" Edited by: Tariq Ashraf, Jaideep Sharma and Puja Anand Gulati ISBN: 978-1615207671 Published by: IGI Global, USA, 2010 Description The increasing prevalence of digital information systems and technologies compels libraries across the globe to update systems and provide users with a digital experience outside the confines of the structural library, providing useful benefits to the user while creating new areas of concern such as digital information preservation. Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives presents a compilation of articles discussing the benefits and challenges of digital information and library digitization. Scholars from around the globe investigate web application development, techniques for digital conversion, composition of digital libraries, digital environments, and much more. This reference work proves valuable to the study and enhancement of digital information systems and technologies, and in assisting practitioners in the implementation and building of such systems and applications. Table of Content 1. Digital Libraries (Tariq Ashraf, Puja Gulati) 2. Digital Libraries and Scholarly Communication (S. Jindal) 3. Digitisation (Jagdish Arora) 4. Tools and Techniques for Digital Conversion (Pravin Choudhary) 5. Building Digital Libraries (Kshema Prakash, Jason Pannone, K. Swarup) 6. Web 2.0 and Social Web Approaches to Digital Libraries (Arun Chakraborty) 7. Information Preservation and Information Services in the Digital Age (Manisha Saksena) 8. Digital Preservation Challenges, Infrastructures and Evaluations (David Giaretta) 9. Managing Change in Reference and Information Services in Digital Environment (Shantanu Ganguly, Shweta Pandey) 10. Digital Library and Repositories (Bharat Kumar) 11. Collaborative Digital Library Development in India (Anup Kumar Das, B.K. Sen, Chaitali Dutta) 12. Intellectual Property Rights (Jaideep Sharma) 13. Facilitating Access to Indian Cultural Heritage (Ramesh Gaur) 14. Harnessing Technology for Providing Knowledge for Development (M. Bhatt) 15. Digital Library And E-Governance (Pradip Upadhyay, Madaswamy Moni) 16. Bridging the Digital Divide (Leila Anaraki, Azadeh Heidari) 17. Digital Divide and Economic Wealth (Shampa Paul) Further Information: http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37298 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome
by Badan Barman 23 May '10

23 May '10

Respected forum members, The piece of news that I am going to share is not related to Library and Information Science. But its so important for all of us that i could not resist myself for posting in the forum. Its historic day of creating artificial life on earth. Even I am aware of the fact that the news clippings should not be copied and pasted here as because the forum to which I am going to post maintain its online archive. So, catch the news over: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-f… . and lets hope that J. Craig Venter will be the next noble prize winners for his effort in genetics and artificially created life. Indian LIS Professionals: http://lislinks.ning.com/ Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, School of Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Mobile: +9198642-05166 Website: www.kkhsou.org Note: If you forward this e-mail, please delete my e-mail address to reduce Spam, Viruses & Identity Theft! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy at Mitra Academy - School Librarian
by Thippeswamy 22 May '10

22 May '10

Mitra Acaemy, is looking for a School Librarian in Banerghatta road, Bangalore. For more details contact Mrs. Jayanthi Vijaygopal Principal Mobile no. 9845025716 Best wishes Thippeswamy K Librarian Srishti School of Art, Design & Tech. & Mallya Aditi International School Yelahanka New Town Bangalore - 106 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Thank you all
by Amitabh Manglam 21 May '10

21 May '10

Dear All, We got immense response to our National library workshop on Koha: Open Source Software for Library automation” which will be held on 4-5 June 2010. *Kindly today onwards don’t send your nominations for our workshop as participant limit has been exceed.* Once again ww thank you all Organising Committee Member -- Amitabh Kumar Manglam LIA, Central Library Birla Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand - 835215 Contact Number: +91-9470943275 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by Tejasvini.Ranadive＠ril.com 21 May '10

21 May '10

Required urgently! Metal dusting in CCR platforming unit (p 211-217) J. Dampc, Z. Grzesik, J. Huci[cid:image001.gif@01CAF8F7.4DBA8380]ska Published Online: Dec 16 2008 9:27AM DOI: 10.1002/maco.200805026 Volume 60 Issue 3 Thanks & Regards, Tejasvini Ranadive Librarian Reliance Industries Ltd. Central Library, B-4/ MIDC Industrial Area, Patalganga Manufacturing Division, Dist. Raigad - 410220 MAHARASHTRA Tel: 02192256270 tejasvini.ranadive(a)ril.com "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). are confidential. and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient. you are hereby notified that any review. re-transmission. conversion to hard copy. copying. circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient. please notify the sender immediately by return email. and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Virus Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email. The company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachment." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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